Comments on: Flowers, falling maple leaves and wriggling dwarveshttps://mindhacks.com/2010/08/18/flowers-on-stones-falling-maple-leaves-and-wriggling-dwarves/
Neuroscience and psychology news and views.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:53:55 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Mike Marinoshttps://mindhacks.com/2010/08/18/flowers-on-stones-falling-maple-leaves-and-wriggling-dwarves/#comment-8928
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:52:48 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13429#comment-8928I remember my grandfather after a stroke in a hospital bed completely mystified that the doctors, nice as they where, couldn’t see the lovely moving pictures on all his walls. He described them in great detail and they where obviously a source of great comfort to him.
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Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:17:18 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13429#comment-8925Reminded me of a great TED Talk by Oliver Sacks about Charles Bonnet Syndrome, a condition where visually impaired people experience hallucinations. I think some of the individuals he cited also saw small dwarves. Weird.

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Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:47:53 +0000http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13429#comment-8915Although I don’t have access to the article I strongly suspect some of the sketches would be included. Most Japanese I know are good at drawing – perhaps because of their written language, perhaps because of the lack of a coherent street address system necessitates drawing maps rather than providing verbal directions.
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